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Program Manager & Chief Scrum Master In this role you will provide program management expertise to support multiple business level initiatives, ensuring they are planned, organized, and delivered on time and within budget. You will serve as the point of contact for Scrum Masters across the organization delivering on priorities, facilitating escalation within the governance model, and reporting structures. You will foster cross-team collaboration to ensure teams are working effectively to meet the PB Product and Business Solutions OKRs, customer expectations and business targets. The outcome(s) of the Product and Business Solutions Program will have a significant impact on the success of the business strategic plan. Responsibilities: Work with Program Owners to manage incoming requests and the prioritization process (Pipeline) for the Product and Business Solutions Team. Manage the overall Town Roadmap, Dependencies & Impediments log and support monthly performance reporting, OKRs, goal scorecard, and budgets to senior management. Responsible for reporting on progress for OKRs, including the maintenance and reporting of data required for key performance indicators. Work with Town Finance to ensure project costs are tracking to budget and flag issues as needed. Escalation of cross team impediments, blockers, and dependencies. Achieve resolution through collaboration with delivery and team leads, escalating when appropriate for executive decisioning. Track and support the maintenance of town risks and issues, procedures, BCP plans, and other program deliverables. Support established governance processes and ensure teams are executing in alignment with delivery governance standards. Develop and maintain program communication pages (i.e., Confluence), including support of communications to internal customers. Drive high-quality reporting in a timely manner for senior and executive management along with ad hoc requests. Review each scrum teams performance using OKRs, agile metrics, and other appropriate tools and techniques to monitor team maturity and performance. Identify and quantify any variances, recommend any required corrective actions, and monitor progress on agreed pod coaching/action plans. Qualifications Possess 5+ years of experience in financial services in a program/project management role. At least 2 years experience as a scrum master with ability to guide others on Agile/Scrum principles and oversee/monitor releases. Excellent written and verbal presentation skills a must ability to provide progress narratives and communicate effectively for c-suite audience is required. In-depth knowledge and proven application of Program and Project Management methodologies (including agile and waterfall) and full project lifecycle including documentation standards, risk, issue, assumption, and dependency management and change controls process. Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills with competent use of other Microsoft Office applications Competent with JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint and Planview. Ability to query JIRA, mine for updates across several organizations within JIRA, and create JIRA roadmap views as required. Ability to create Confluence views, including use of wizards is needed. Pay range: \$85-\$90/hr 3105 Power-4 is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, gender identity, citizenship, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, age, marital status or any other status protect. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website EEO is the Law Poster (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migratedfiles/employers/posterscreenreaderoptimized.pdf) , EEO is the Law Poster-Supplement (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/